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I fall in love with life all over again on a regular basis. The
world is wild, weird and constantly in flux. I'm neither naïve nor
jaded. I have experienced the sacred and the profane, the numinous
and the goofy. I think they're all the same thing. But for all of
that, I am far more likely to ponder than to pontificate, because
there's so much more to see than I have already. I think every day
gives us opportunities to smash our own assumptions against the
rocks of the unknown and find something unexpectedly beautiful in
the remains.

I like rock climbing, bicycling, motorcycling, playing music,
reading books for hours, having fascinating conversations with
switched-on people, doing math, cooking breakfast foods, and
petting cats. I am passionate about social justice, and try to
subvert race and class privilege, sexism and heteronormativity
wherever I find it - with good cheer and compassion whenever I can
muster, and with stern resolve when I can't. I don't always succeed
at this, or catch everything, but it feels worth trying.

Nerds take note - I'm a wildly unrepentant sapiosexual.

My amazing and wonderful life partner mortalgeek and I have recently (read: a
couple years ago) spawned a tiny dictator. She and I are both
queer, radical, goth-tinged-punk riot nrrrrds, and the sproglet
makes us both make happy sounds and lose lots of sleep.

To pay the bills and keep the brainmeats supple and lithe, I am a
mechanical engineer, focused on energy, newly minted as a PE. To
stay sane and keep my heart & soul healthy, I am a musician. I
sing, play lots of instruments, and am the bassist for a metal band
called Bottom. You can check that out at http://www.bottomrocks.com
if that sort of thing interests you.

I bike to work and want to get back into going to the climbing gym
more regularly. I've ridden in AIDS Life/Cycle a couple of times
and that made me fall in love with distance cycling, but it's been
a while since I got out there and did that. Want to go for a ride
sometime?

math, waffles, cuddling, winkling the juicy bits out of complex
conceptual problems and talking about them at length, and being
unexpectedly surreal.

A quote from VoxExMachina: "phenonate is a bit of a triple threat.
He's funny, smart, and hot/musical (Ok, possibly a quadruple
threat.) He's also incredibly compassionate and wise, so if you're
going to go out with him, just be prepared for that. It can be a
little disorienting if you're not used to it, but trust me, you'll
like it."

Books:
Gravity's Rainbow, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, House of Leaves, the
Dark Tower cycle, Anathem, the collected works of Charles Stross,
Neal Asher and Iain (M.) Banks, Time on Two Crosses, Invisible Man,
the autobiography of Malcolm X, Where the Wild Things Are, The
Indispensable Calvin & Hobbes, and so, so many more.

Movies: (there are so many, I am just going to list the ones that
come to mind right off)
Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Coraline, Hedwig & the Angry
Inch, Shortbus, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Let the Right One
In, the original cut of A Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice,
But I'm A Cheerleader, Dune, Lawrence of Arabia, Annie, Alien, City
of Lost Children, Pan's Labyrinth, The Taqwacores...

peace, social justice, gender identity and its evolution in the
modern world, achieving a sustainable society in both the material
and social/ethical spheres, kissing, and how good it feels to
finally sneeze after you've been thinking you had to forEVER but
can't. quite. do it. (And other such oddities.)